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From Arthur de Souza Corrêa1   2 January 1882

Brazilian Legation | 2a. Granville Place. | W. | London.

2 janvier 1882.

Monsieur,

J m’empresse d’accuser réception de votre aimable lettre du 31 Décembre que je ne manquerai pas de transmettre au Baron de Villa Franca.2 Les documents que je vous ai remis vous sont destinés en toute proprieté, et je serais très heureux de voir réalisée votre intention de leur donner publicité dans un journal scientifique Anglais, sous votre haut patronage.3

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, avec mes remerciements reitérés pour toute l’obligeance avec laquelle vous avez bien voulu accueillir les communications que le Baron de Villa Franca vous a adressées par mon intermédiare, l’assurance de mes sentiments de respect et de haute considération

A. de Souza Corrêa

Footnotes

1
For a translation of this letter, see Appendix I.
2
CD’s letter has not been found. It was a reply to the letter from Arthur de Souza Corrêa, 28 December 1881 (Correspondence vol. 29), which contained observations by Ignacio Francisco Silveira da Motta, baron de Vila Franca, on a new variety of sugar cane.
3
The documents have not been found; see letter to G. J. Romanes, 1 January [1882].

Translation

From Arthur de Souza Corrêa1   2 January 1882

Brazilian Legation | 2a. Granville Place. | W. | London.

2 January 1882.

Sir,

I hasten to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter of the 31 December, which I will not fail to forward to Baron de Villa Franca.2 The documents that I sent you are for your unrestricted use, and I would be very happy to see your intention of giving them publicity in an English scientific journal carried out, under your high patronage.3

Please accept, Sir, with renewed thanks for all the kindness with which you have been so willing to receive the communications that Baron de Villa Franca has addressed to you through my mediation, the assurance of my sentiments of respect and high regard

A. de Souza Corrêa

Footnotes

1
For a transcription of this letter in its original French, see Transcript.
2
CD’s letter has not been found. It was a reply to the letter from Arthur de Souza Corrêa, 28 December 1881 (Correspondence vol. 29), which contained observations by Ignacio Francisco Silveira da Motta, baron de Vila Franca, on a new variety of sugar cane.
3
The documents have not been found; see letter to G. J. Romanes, 1 January [1882].

Summary

Thanks CD for letter for Villa Franca. Would be happy if CD published the Baron’s observations in an English scientific journal.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13595
From
João Arthur (Arthur) de Souza Corrêa
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Granville Place, 2a
Source of text
DAR 160: 284
Physical description
ALS 3pp (French)

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13595,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13595.xml

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